Good recent Russian comedy film suggestion?

[Olga Dobrunova]

Dear Nicole,
You might like “Artistka”, 2005 (with English subtitles) – a very lyrical comedy with fine Russian humor and burlesque dialogs - http://www.amazon.com/Artistka-Artist-English-Subtitles-Bondarchuk/dp/B00112ANPI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1232757941&sr=8-3
Or “Bednye rodstvenniki”, 2005 (with English subtitles) directed by Pavel Lungin about a young con artist Edik played by Konstantin Khabensky (Night Watch)  who gets in trouble gathering long lost foreign relatives together. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464632/
Another lyrical comedy is “Zolushka.ru”, 2007, but I am not sure if you can find it with English subtitles. Some info in Russian is here: http://www.film.ru/afisha/movie.asp?code=ZOLUSHRU
Best,
Olga

--- On Fri, 1/23/09, Monniern <Monniern at MISSOURI.EDU> wrote:

From: Monniern <Monniern at MISSOURI.EDU>
Subject: [SEELANGS] Good recent Russian comedy film suggestion?
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 4:36 PM

SEELANGS-tsy!

Could anyone recommend a good recent-ish Russian comedy that would be easily
available (say, through Netflix) with English subtitles? The MU Russian Club
is looking for suggestions, and I am more useless than I would generally
care to admit (tho I suppose I¹m doing it fairly publicly with this email .
. .).

In any event, all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Best,

Nicole


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Dr. Nicole Monnier
Assistant Teaching Professor of Russian
Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
German & Russian Studies
428A Strickland (formerly GCB)
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

phone: 573.882.3370



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